'Best birthday present ever': Fresh off a breakup, guy decides to rescue his own birthday by treating himself to dinner, then finds a tiny tortoiseshell kitten who needs rescuing first

What better birthday present is there than a surprise delivery from the Cat Distribution System?

As you get older, birthdays just ain't what they used to be. When we were kids, we were surrounded by our friends for 8 hours, then we would go home to the smell of a cake in the oven, and have just enough time to get excited again for all of our friends to come over a few hours later to celebrate. Gifts, playtime, cake, balloons, the whole shebang. But all of that is long gone by now - birthdays in your 30s look like an average day at work, unless you're lucky, and your coworkers chip in and get you a cake for you to all munch on at lunchtime. 

If you're married, you might get to go out for a birthday drink, but with kids, that usually has to wait until you can schedule the babysitter. And if you're single, well, you're entirely dependent on your friends to hopefully be free on your birthday in order to join you. It has none of the excitement from your younger days, and is the most accurate representation of "adulting" we can think of.

Birthdays when you're single are the hardest, and even worse if you've just gone through a breakup. At the very least, you should treat yourself to a birthday dinner, but it's hard to have the confidence to do that alone. However, the good news is that you might just find a fuzzy friend on the way! While driving to his solo birthday dinner, one guy spotted… something: a rat, a squirrel - he wasn't sure - scampering in the bike lane. He pulled over and discovered the tiniest tortoiseshell kitten we've ever seen. He scooped her up, named her "Trixie the Runaway", and the two lonely souls became one.

Now, neither of them will ever celebrate a birthday alone, and the thought of that just makes our cat-shaped hearts feel all warm and fuzzy. Best birthday present ever!